Next time you buy a poppy to pay tribute to those who gave their lives fighting for our country, take a few seconds to remember that this c**t, Tory MP James Gray, member of Parliament for North Wiltshire, claimed £60 on expenses to pay for wreaths. Guido Fawkes who has many amusing things on his blog today had this to say… among others:
Tory MP James Gray, who Guido can confirm from previous behaviour is a complete shit, is exposed today by the News of the World “as a greedy skinflint after claiming for Remembrance Day wreaths on expenses.” Iain Dale calls James Gray “a class one copper bottomed shit… I feel sick to the stomach that an MP from the party I support could even contemplate claiming money for a wreath, let alone actually going ahead and doing it.” So bad news for the Tory Shadow Scottish Secretary David Mundell, who also claims for wreaths. They are both pretty much unashamed that their tribute to those who made the ultimate sacrifice is to put in an expense claim.
I could not resist visiting Mr Gray’s website… and to my joy… there was the picture above which I have snipped so as to add my own thoughts. Ironically, there is also a post by Mr Gray…
MP calls for the Camp Bastion War Memorial to be returned to Wootton Bassett
Thursday 23rd April
North Wiltshire MP James Gray has called for the war memorial, which is currently at Camp Bastion, to be moved to Wootton Bassett High Street when the camp finally closes, as a way of recognising the way the town pays its respects to repatriated bodies of our fallen servicemen.
Perhaps Mr Gray was concerned about how far he would have to go to claim travel expenses? I do not know but, clearly, he has the best interests of our armed forces at heart.
Oh… and do have a look at Guido Fawkes today – an amusing Musical about MP expenses among other things…. on Sunday Sleaze – a bumper edition.
Note: James Gray MP
Military Service
His military service includes seven years in the Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest regiment of the Territorial Army (1977-84) on whose Court of Assistants he served from 2002-07. He is a graduate of the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme and of the Royal College of Defence Studies.
Never heard of this non-entity piece of scum before but I sense that when it comes to being remembered for his c**tishness, he will be sleeping soundly in the knowledge that the Torygraph is saving the best to last. Step forward, the King of the C**ts, Ed Balls, and the charm free zone that is his vomit inducing missus, Yvette Cooper. Whether it is, as yet, unsubstantiated rumour or merely wishful thinking on the part of right thinking people, the pub talk in Westminster is that we are, by the standards of those who have already been exposed, going to be treated to a c**t alert of nuclear proportions.
There is a list of people who have said they will be sorry to see the back of Balls & Cooper. It is reproduced below, in full:
Hi Anon… your list of people did not seem to post. (I did not delete it) WordPress can do strange things to posts occasionally. Please re-post if you have the inclination)
I don’t think any names were missing.
yep – i contacted everyone on the list personally and they confirmed its veracity.
The list didn’t come through here either……
Disgraceful to claim for wreaths in my opinion.
BTW, how much did it cost the taxpayer for this fellow to visit the troops – presumably the people paid for his flight, accomodation, spending money etc.?
Did he take others along on the trip?
PS See he spent some time with the TA’s. (Not surprising since the rates of pay are good there too!)
Charon,
Perhaps Philip Glass could read the list.
james – if they don’t get it yet we may have to be a bit less subtle… will we be able to claim for the brick if it’s from our second home?
Simply,
This reminds me of Geeklawyer’s April 1st post about becoming a solicitor inadequate. The quicksilver legal mind can work in mysterious ways.
nice philip glass comment, though. i bet you can tell me exactly how long it would take mr glass to read the list.
i particularly love the way you can guarantee that any successful barrister got a third back in the day and barely even turned up at oxbridge before may week. they then annoy us by saying things like: ‘well of course i wouldn’t have a prayer of getting pupillage these days’.
*sigh*
Simply,
‘i bet you can tell me exactly how long it would take mr glass to read the list’
Now, that would be a good interview question.
but surely ‘why do you want to be a barrister’ would be a more imaginative option.
It gets even worse re James Gray. After hearing about the whole wreath fiasco I read up some more about him.1. He had a 19 month affair with a Country Alliance Protester while his wife was battling breast cancer. He admitted to it and left his wife shortly after he was rumbled. Members of the Conservative party in his Wiltshire constituency tried to deselect him but he refused to stand down believing he had done nothing to harm his moral authority as a politician. 2. During that trip to Afghanistan shown above he took a photo of a dying soldier who was being transferred to a plane. The military escort he had with him asked him to delete the photo as it was obviously disrespectful but he didn’t and later claimed he was interested in the plane not the corpse-a fellow conservative MP that accompanied him on this trip has asserted that this claim was rubbish and he did photograph the soldier. 3. It is well known by his constituents that he has several family members on the payroll in the spirit of Derek Conway including his daughter who works approximately half an hour a week for him writing press releases and is rewarded with a monthly salary in the thousands plus his mistress cum girlfriend who is employed as his “diary secretary” at a cost of £2, 400 a month to the taxpayer despite already having a full time taxpayer funded secretary in London and his constituency.
I think he must be single handedly the most rotten moral character in the whole viper pit called the Houses of Commons.
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